INTRODUCTION: In my second independent reading book called "BREATHE" By Sarah Crossan reveals that a planet of some sort within their region has meaning to many peoples lives in their society. But how did it get their? Maybe it consist of things that people in the society shouldn't know about, or it can be an area where only certain people are allowed. From the provided description this planet seems t be an area where there isn't enough oxygen where the "... trio must have two days worth of oxygen in their tanks." Their seems to be something mysterious about this other planet and it will be up too Bea, Quinn and Alina to truly figure it out..
The article above named " Exploring The Mysteries of everyday life" talks about how trees are one of the two "..most valuable elements to life.." With out trees their would be no money, with out money their would be no products, without trees their will be no breathing, with no breathing their will be nothing living. Author Naseem expresses his idea that "Trees are a crucial factor to our existence not only because they produce paper, lumber and chewing gum, but because they serve an important role in the carbon cycle." With that being said "without trees, humans would not be able to survive because the air would be unsuitable for breathing." Once the air becomes unsuitable for breathing, many people will begin to die because of the lack of oxygen. Although many people don't really think about what the trees provide for us when cutting them down but hey they are the ones keeping us all alive. The article also implies how any future ideas of deforestation would not be the greatest environmental solution, whereas cutting down the trees can lead to filthy air, lifeless soils, chronic droughts , no tree based products and water wars. Editor Naseem is also inputting hi personal opinion about deforestation and how devastating even thinking about the topic makes him feel. "The Amazon rainforest is currently the host of half the world's species" meaning that if we loose that Amazon rainforest then half the world is gone and that can mean anything from animals to people.
This article really stood out to me, it makes me think about how important trees really are. Although I knew that trees provides us with oxygen I didn't really make it click in my mind that its the reason why I'm still breathing today. It makes me really want to think about how much paper I use and why I shouldn't take it for granite because the more people we use the more trees that need to be cut down in order to replace that paper. The products with trees that will be effected if trees where to be cut down devastates me because I love tea, and I love my salads and I love my hair products and I love my spinach, and I absolutely love money. With all of that gone their is definitely no me. the audience reading this article must feel the same way because even though we don't really acknowledge the fact that trees make us, this article will snap it and put it together in our brains that we cant really live with out them. Farmers wouldn't be able to grow crops to sell in stores and animals wouldn't be able to provide it for us because they will be dead.
I'm no scientist or anything but : Cutting Down Trees will affect s all in the long run.
POST 2 PASSAGE 1: " Trees are no longer essential to our survival, nor our progress. Obviously. What else does anyone ever talk about? A boy in a crisp white shirt jumps in first. "Trees were essential, historically , but now they're dead, we can do without them. One only need enter the pod is witness how happy and healthy every citizen is." Of course. A Premium would think of the pod aw a paradise. But he's jumped in without thinking through his argument and theres no way he's going to be able to maintain that position for a whole hour." (11)
ANALYSIS: In the passage above it is showing how the author uses a class discussion about how trees may mean nothing to society and even though they are dead people are still living. It talks about a concept that makes no sense to reality today where everyone knows that we live off of trees. In this passage the author expresses how this corrupt society lives off of something else. Maybe something more technical or a new system of breathing that maybe announced further in the future. The debate about trees being a non factor in peoples lives is just ridiculous because of the fact that trees provide us with carbon dioxide which is our oxygen. Which will keep the citizens happy and healthy since that is a concern in this passage. If there's no trees there's no people or anything else living. To be human is to also understand the concept of life and what we need and may not need to survive whereas trees is one of the most important aspects in life that we truly need in order to survive. Whereas in the article it states that "Carbon is the second most valuable element to life... After water."
POST 3
PASSAGE 2: " We want leaders we can trust, " the Pod minister says ignoring the ruckus going on between my father and me. "And, well, when we looked at the footage of the debate, we had to conclude that the witchcraft girl is not necessarily a person to trust." Bea can't be trusted? Have they forgotten that I was in the debate, too? I heard everything she said. I'd tell them that, too, if my father wasn't giving me the stink eye. "Your friend is what we affectionately call a 'tree hugger," the Pod Minister says. "Although tree huggers have also been called less affectionate names. Ha!" "Like RATS," my father says. "You think Bea's a terrorist because she argued for the trees?" I say. The idea is ridiculous; Bea is so moralistic , it's like doing the right thing has been programmed into her. The Pod Minister and my father exchange looks and I begin to feel nervous. Is it possible Bea has been added to a suspect list?" (52-53)
ANALYSIS: This passage is expressing the way people are treated within the society. Whereas being entitled to your own opinion may not always be the best idea. The Pod Minister is truly admired by the citizens and what ever he says, goes, whether people like it or not. One of the main characters Quinn finds it crazy how his friend Bea is called a 'tree hugger' because she wanted to state her own opinion. Using the wrong context Quinn sticks up for his friend. Being "programmed" would be considered witchcraft to the citizens and the Pod Minister. No one could be programmed unless they are a robot or a "witch". This passage is important because it shows the readers how ridiculous the concept of having a teenager become a leader because they believed in what the Pod minister believed in which was trees being non important to people's lives. Composed to someone else who believes that trees were once important but isn't now. This shows how people can use context to manipulate people's minds, the Pod Minister has it in his power to let the society know that he doesn't allow tree huggers and what he doesn't allow the people don't allow do they are limited to their own opinions. This relates to the previous passage as it gives supporting details of Bea's consequences of her unsuitable debate.
POST 4:
PASSAGE 3: "The only other time I visited The Outlands was for a school trip when I was around seven. We were all being offered a chance to try breathing without a mask, taking turns as the teacher slowly drew it from our faces and cheerfully told us to inhale. It was like drinking fire. The teacher watched as I gasped. She smiled, nodded, kept the facemask away from my nose and mouth, and then, when I began to stagger, she snapped the mask back into place and tightened the straps. "Wasn't that an experience?" Was all she said. I always wondered what the purpose of that trip was. Were we being taught how desperately we needed the pod? It was certainly a way to ensure I never tried to defect. So I have to wonder what is happening to Alina to make her flee like this." (80)
ANALYSIS: This passage is very strange, were character Bea talks about a time during her young age that she once went to "The Outlands" and how at a young age was taught not to take of the mask unless told to do so. The teacher in a way gets the students ready for what it feels like to not be able to, to breathe. Although at such a young age. Why would they have to know the feeling?. The teacher must be insane for thinking it is okay to take off a seven year olds gas mask for even one second. Bea believes that taking off the masks was supposed to teach her that the Pod Minister was absolutely well needed in peoples, but she look besides the fact and looked at as a lesson to not take off the masks or you won't be able to breathe. The author is implying that even st a young age Bea was always an outcast and thought differently and was not the same as everyone else in the dystopian society. Our decpetions of the future reveals that our present where one day be experiences rather then lessons. This passage relates to the previous quotes because it reveals the unwinding truth about why Bea is the way she is and why she has the opinions that he does.
POST 5
PASSAGE 4: "Dorian is showing us the sleeping quarters when I'm seized from behind. Before I can struggle free or protest, my mask is removed and I am yanked, gasping for breath, down several flights of stairs and thrown into a concrete room with no windows. Maude is thrown in after me, though she has it worse: she's blindfolded, gagged, a and her hands and feet are bound with twine. The door slams and all the light disappears. The air in the room is thin. And it's as much as I can do to crawl on my hands and knees towards Maude. I feel like vomiting from the dizziness. "Maude," I say softly. I am removing her blindfold when a dim light enters the room and a high voice bellows beyond the door." Leave the old woman as she is!" In the door is a grate, which must be an opening for food, and in this grate is the shadow of a face." (227-228)
ANALYSIS: This passage shows how the outcast are tortured and treated. Bea who is the tree hugger seems to get herself ready for this tragic life experience. Where she is put in a room with no windows or light and barely any air for her and Maude ( another outcast character within the novel) to breathe. The light disappearing and them being in a trapped room seems to be significant to not being able to live and since they do not agree with In this passage the author is implying the cruelity that when having your own opinions in the world can lead too. Maude may have received the torture even worse because since she is an "Old lady" she should know better not to state an opinion that the Pod won't agree with. To be human is too sacrafice many things in life that can may lead you to the good or bad. In this passage Bea was sacrificing her life based on an opinion she wanted to reveal to the world. This relates to the previous passages because it comes down to the conclusion of this dystopian society that nearly kills them because of those that believe in trees being one essential to their lives.
ANALYSIS ON SOCIAL CRITIQUE:
Breathe by Sarah Crossan, is a compelling novel. Revealing the strange ways of how the characters in this novel has a different way of providing oxygen for themselves. Everyone knows we need trees in order to provide us with carbon dioxide which we use to breathe. Author Sarah Crossan uses characters in a dystopian society to express how the world will one day be if trees are being continued to be cut down. In the novel in order to survive they must pay to breathe. And what if they don't have the money to pay to breathe? That is when author Sarah uses the trio to find another way of getting oxygen. By doing that they must dig deeper, leaving the dystopian ways behind them and looking into something more serious. Crossan is showing the readers that if were to have a future environmental issue where deforestation occurs then our world will be corrupt to the point where we would have to pay for oxygen basically pay too live. No one would have time to do such a thing with all these bills to be paid off and all the other things in life like providing for their families. If their is no oxygen their is no people or animals
The Future Period:2
INTRODUCTION:
In my second independent reading book called "BREATHE" By Sarah Crossan reveals that a planet of some sort within their region has meaning to many peoples lives in their society. But how did it get their? Maybe it consist of things that people in the society shouldn't know about, or it can be an area where only certain people are allowed. From the provided description this planet seems t be an area where there isn't enough oxygen where the "... trio must have two days worth of oxygen in their tanks." Their seems to be something mysterious about this other planet and it will be up too Bea, Quinn and Alina to truly figure it out..
S, Naseem. "Scitable." Exploring the mysteries of everyday life. Nature education, 12 Apr. 2011. Web. 11 Jan. 2015. <http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/our-science/no_trees_no_humans>.
The article above named " Exploring The Mysteries of everyday life" talks about how trees are one of the two "..most valuable elements to life.." With out trees their would be no money, with out money their would be no products, without trees their will be no breathing, with no breathing their will be nothing living. Author Naseem expresses his idea that "Trees are a crucial factor to our existence not only because they produce paper, lumber and chewing gum, but because they serve an important role in the carbon cycle." With that being said "without trees, humans would not be able to survive because the air would be unsuitable for breathing." Once the air becomes unsuitable for breathing, many people will begin to die because of the lack of oxygen. Although many people don't really think about what the trees provide for us when cutting them down but hey they are the ones keeping us all alive. The article also implies how any future ideas of deforestation would not be the greatest environmental solution, whereas cutting down the trees can lead to filthy air, lifeless soils, chronic droughts , no tree based products and water wars. Editor Naseem is also inputting hi personal opinion about deforestation and how devastating even thinking about the topic makes him feel. "The Amazon rainforest is currently the host of half the world's species" meaning that if we loose that Amazon rainforest then half the world is gone and that can mean anything from animals to people.
This article really stood out to me, it makes me think about how important trees really are. Although I knew that trees provides us with oxygen I didn't really make it click in my mind that its the reason why I'm still breathing today. It makes me really want to think about how much paper I use and why I shouldn't take it for granite because the more people we use the more trees that need to be cut down in order to replace that paper. The products with trees that will be effected if trees where to be cut down devastates me because I love tea, and I love my salads and I love my hair products and I love my spinach, and I absolutely love money. With all of that gone their is definitely no me. the audience reading this article must feel the same way because even though we don't really acknowledge the fact that trees make us, this article will snap it and put it together in our brains that we cant really live with out them. Farmers wouldn't be able to grow crops to sell in stores and animals wouldn't be able to provide it for us because they will be dead.
I'm no scientist or anything but : Cutting Down Trees will affect s all in the long run.
POST 2
PASSAGE 1:
" Trees are no longer essential to our survival, nor our progress. Obviously. What else does anyone ever talk about? A boy in a crisp white shirt jumps in first. "Trees were essential, historically , but now they're dead, we can do without them. One only need enter the pod is witness how happy and healthy every citizen is." Of course. A Premium would think of the pod aw a paradise. But he's jumped in without thinking through his argument and theres no way he's going to be able to maintain that position for a whole hour." (11)
ANALYSIS:
In the passage above it is showing how the author uses a class discussion about how trees may mean nothing to society and even though they are dead people are still living. It talks about a concept that makes no sense to reality today where everyone knows that we live off of trees. In this passage the author expresses how this corrupt society lives off of something else. Maybe something more technical or a new system of breathing that maybe announced further in the future. The debate about trees being a non factor in peoples lives is just ridiculous because of the fact that trees provide us with carbon dioxide which is our oxygen. Which will keep the citizens happy and healthy since that is a concern in this passage. If there's no trees there's no people or anything else living. To be human is to also understand the concept of life and what we need and may not need to survive whereas trees is one of the most important aspects in life that we truly need in order to survive. Whereas in the article it states that "Carbon is the second most valuable element to life... After water."
POST 3
PASSAGE 2:
" We want leaders we can trust, " the Pod minister says ignoring the ruckus going on between my father and me. "And, well, when we looked at the footage of the debate, we had to conclude that the witchcraft girl is not necessarily a person to trust." Bea can't be trusted? Have they forgotten that I was in the debate, too? I heard everything she said. I'd tell them that, too, if my father wasn't giving me the stink eye. "Your friend is what we affectionately call a 'tree hugger," the Pod Minister says. "Although tree huggers have also been called less affectionate names. Ha!" "Like RATS," my father says. "You think Bea's a terrorist because she argued for the trees?" I say. The idea is ridiculous; Bea is so moralistic , it's like doing the right thing has been programmed into her. The Pod Minister and my father exchange looks and I begin to feel nervous. Is it possible Bea has been added to a suspect list?" (52-53)
ANALYSIS:
This passage is expressing the way people are treated within the society. Whereas being entitled to your own opinion may not always be the best idea. The Pod Minister is truly admired by the citizens and what ever he says, goes, whether people like it or not. One of the main characters Quinn finds it crazy how his friend Bea is called a 'tree hugger' because she wanted to state her own opinion. Using the wrong context Quinn sticks up for his friend. Being "programmed" would be considered witchcraft to the citizens and the Pod Minister. No one could be programmed unless they are a robot or a "witch". This passage is important because it shows the readers how ridiculous the concept of having a teenager become a leader because they believed in what the Pod minister believed in which was trees being non important to people's lives. Composed to someone else who believes that trees were once important but isn't now. This shows how people can use context to manipulate people's minds, the Pod Minister has it in his power to let the society know that he doesn't allow tree huggers and what he doesn't allow the people don't allow do they are limited to their own opinions. This relates to the previous passage as it gives supporting details of Bea's consequences of her unsuitable debate.
POST 4:
PASSAGE 3:
"The only other time I visited The Outlands was for a school trip when I was around seven. We were all being offered a chance to try breathing without a mask, taking turns as the teacher slowly drew it from our faces and cheerfully told us to inhale. It was like drinking fire. The teacher watched as I gasped. She smiled, nodded, kept the facemask away from my nose and mouth, and then, when I began to stagger, she snapped the mask back into place and tightened the straps. "Wasn't that an experience?" Was all she said. I always wondered what the purpose of that trip was. Were we being taught how desperately we needed the pod? It was certainly a way to ensure I never tried to defect. So I have to wonder what is happening to Alina to make her flee like this." (80)
ANALYSIS:
This passage is very strange, were character Bea talks about a time during her young age that she once went to "The Outlands" and how at a young age was taught not to take of the mask unless told to do so. The teacher in a way gets the students ready for what it feels like to not be able to, to breathe. Although at such a young age. Why would they have to know the feeling?. The teacher must be insane for thinking it is okay to take off a seven year olds gas mask for even one second. Bea believes that taking off the masks was supposed to teach her that the Pod Minister was absolutely well needed in peoples, but she look besides the fact and looked at as a lesson to not take off the masks or you won't be able to breathe. The author is implying that even st a young age Bea was always an outcast and thought differently and was not the same as everyone else in the dystopian society. Our decpetions of the future reveals that our present where one day be experiences rather then lessons. This passage relates to the previous quotes because it reveals the unwinding truth about why Bea is the way she is and why she has the opinions that he does.
POST 5
PASSAGE 4:
"Dorian is showing us the sleeping quarters when I'm seized from behind. Before I can struggle free or protest, my mask is removed and I am yanked, gasping for breath, down several flights of stairs and thrown into a concrete room with no windows. Maude is thrown in after me, though she has it worse: she's blindfolded, gagged, a and her hands and feet are bound with twine. The door slams and all the light disappears. The air in the room is thin. And it's as much as I can do to crawl on my hands and knees towards Maude. I feel like vomiting from the dizziness. "Maude," I say softly. I am removing her blindfold when a dim light enters the room and a high voice bellows beyond the door." Leave the old woman as she is!" In the door is a grate, which must be an opening for food, and in this grate is the shadow of a face." (227-228)
ANALYSIS:
This passage shows how the outcast are tortured and treated. Bea who is the tree hugger seems to get herself ready for this tragic life experience. Where she is put in a room with no windows or light and barely any air for her and Maude ( another outcast character within the novel) to breathe. The light disappearing and them being in a trapped room seems to be significant to not being able to live and since they do not agree with In this passage the author is implying the cruelity that when having your own opinions in the world can lead too. Maude may have received the torture even worse because since she is an "Old lady" she should know better not to state an opinion that the Pod won't agree with. To be human is too sacrafice many things in life that can may lead you to the good or bad. In this passage Bea was sacrificing her life based on an opinion she wanted to reveal to the world. This relates to the previous passages because it comes down to the conclusion of this dystopian society that nearly kills them because of those that believe in trees being one essential to their lives.
ANALYSIS ON SOCIAL CRITIQUE:
Breathe by Sarah Crossan, is a compelling novel. Revealing the strange ways of how the characters in this novel has a different way of providing oxygen for themselves. Everyone knows we need trees in order to provide us with carbon dioxide which we use to breathe. Author Sarah Crossan uses characters in a dystopian society to express how the world will one day be if trees are being continued to be cut down. In the novel in order to survive they must pay to breathe. And what if they don't have the money to pay to breathe? That is when author Sarah uses the trio to find another way of getting oxygen. By doing that they must dig deeper, leaving the dystopian ways behind them and looking into something more serious. Crossan is showing the readers that if were to have a future environmental issue where deforestation occurs then our world will be corrupt to the point where we would have to pay for oxygen basically pay too live. No one would have time to do such a thing with all these bills to be paid off and all the other things in life like providing for their families. If their is no oxygen their is no people or animals